Lyons of Cossins and Wester Ogil

I.— SIR JOHN LYON.
1385-1435-
Sir John Lyon was infeft as " heir to his father by a precept out of the
chancery on a retour which precept is teste meipso apud Linlithgow
18 november anno regni 15 (1385) and in it the said John is designed nepotem
nostrum 1 and the said king Robert the second by a write of the date the 18 of
October anno regni 18 takes the said John being but young under his protection
' terras suas homines suos et universas possessiones omnia bona sua mobilia et
immobilia' forbidding any to presume to doe him harm under the pain of
forfeiture ordaining all sherriffs baylies of burghs provests and all others to
whose hands these should come his debitors without delay to pay him or his
acturney such sums as they were resting him and to compell others so to doe.
His father being camerarius there were many debts resting to him in the
kingdome"; 2 from which it is to be inferred that the chamberlain's heirs had
some difficulty in recovering those public dues, for which, according to the earl
of Fife's account above referred to, they were held answerable.
There is a charter of confirmation by John Lyon, lord of Glammis and
Balhelvy Berklay, with consent of Robert king of Scots and of Robert, earl of
Fyf and Menteith, his uncles, and of his guardian, David Flemyng, son and
heir of Malcolm Flemyng of Bygar, confirming a charter granted by John
de Bonevyle, son and heir of the deceased John de Bonevyle, of Balhelvy
Bonevile, in favour of John Fraser, lord of Forglen, of the lands of Balhelvy
Bonevyle, Colistoun, and the two towns of Ardendrachtys, with the tenandries
of Blairtown of Many, and of Achlochry, in the county of Aberdeen, dated at
Forglen, 8 January 1388-9.3
John Lyoun, lord of Glammys, is a witness to the perambulation of the
marches between the baronies of Kyrknes and Louchor, 6 July 1395.1
Sir John's marriage appears to have taken place about this period. The
bride and bridegroom were both of the bloodroyal. The lady was Elizabeth
Grahame, younger daughter of Euphemia, countess palatine of Strathern, and
her husband, sir Patrick Grahame of Dundaff and Kincardine, the founder of
the house of Montrose. The common ancestor was king Robert the second,
grandson of king Robert the Bruce. By the canon law the young people were
related in the third degree of consanguinity — the degree reckoned being
that in which the more remote of the two individuals stood to the common
1 Our grandson. 3 Livingstone's calendar of original charters in
- Lyon office ms. H.M. general register house, Edinburgh, 202.
4 " Registrum prioratus Sancti Andree," 5.
B